Kjundjuljun Mountains
| Kjundjuljun Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | nameless summit ( 640 m ) | |
| location | Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ( Russia ) | |
| part of | East Siberian mountain country | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 14 ′ N , 135 ° 45 ′ E | |
The Kjundjuljun Mountains ( Russian Горы Кюндюлюн ) are up to 640 m high, about 100 km long mountain range of the East Siberian Mountains , each in the northeast of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as well as Siberia and Russia ( Asia ).
Geographical location
The Kjundjuljun Mountains are a rocky mountain range on average around 400 km north of the Arctic Circle . Running in a south-west-north-east direction, its landscape drops to the north and north-east into the Jana-Indigirka lowlands (western part of the East Siberian lowlands ), in the east and south-east there are northwest foothills of the Tscherski Mountains . In the southwest it meets the Kulargebirge beyond the Jana and in the west lies its northern foothills, the Ulachan-Sis ridge .
The highest mountain is an unnamed elevation ( 640 m ) in the southwest part of the mountain range.
flora
Due to the proximity of the Arctic Laptev Sea, permafrost prevails with vegetation of moss and lichen typical of the tundra . In the lower regions, larch forests grow in some areas .
Localities
The interior of the Kjundjuljun Mountains is uninhabited. However, the village of Ust-Kuiga lies at its southwest end in the Jana valley .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximum height of the mountain range according to the topographic map (1: 200,000, p. R-53-XV, XVI, edition 1989) - location (Google maps)